BURRELL TOWNSHIP (KDKA)  An Indiana County man is facing several charges, after wildlife officials say he went deer hunting in a Walmart parking lot.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission says 40-year-old Arcangelo Bianco Jr., fired several rounds from a handgun at a 10-point white-tailed deer from within the Burrell Township stores parking lot, and then bagged the animal near Old William Penn Highway.

The alleged shooting happened last November, while Bianco was shopping at the store, and then saw the buck in the parking lot.

According to charging documents, the deer ran around a corner of the store, and Bianco hopped out of his truck, gun in hand, and began firing multiple rounds at the deer.

Bianco faces a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment, as well as several hunting violations, including hunting without a license, shooting on or across highways and unlawful killing or taking of big game.

LOL! I live in Indiana County. We have a huge deer population, and the two weeks after Thanksgiving is deer hunting season. In fact, the Monday after Thanksgiving, the schools are closed for the opening of deer season.

Whole businesses, industries, towns and municipalities shut down here in PA when Deer Hunting Season starts. When I had my Family Farm Business for 22yrs, I could count on 50-60% of the guys taking 5-6 days off.

I just adjusted my business model to accommodate them, although I don’t hunt or eat deer meat. I didn’t have any qualms whatsoever, since they used it for their own families’ tables and/or donated some to local food banks.

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posted on 03/27/2013 9:23:54 AM PDT
by carriage_hill
(The most insidious power the news media has, is the power to ignore.)

Now had he just ran it down with his truck, that might be a different story... :)

About 20 years ago I was watching 20/20 or 60 minutes or something. They were doing a story on game wardens in some southeastern state placing a decoy buck a hundred feet or so off a highway to nab people who would stop their vehicles and shoot it.

But one couple in a somewhat jacked up 4x4 at night did them one better. They ran it down with their pickup.

Now, the black bear by the dumpster in the morning (a consistent summer issue, probably once a week because some people are sloppy with the garbage) while wearing flip flops and boxers have made me pack a GLOCK 10 to take out the trash. Scared the heck out of me a couple times.

Great name! I’ve seen 5-6 per pick-up truck, in a dozen trucks, come in to the local butcher’s for dressing-out, but never that many at once. But I’m not a hunter, so I’ve never been around a collection point like that.

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posted on 03/27/2013 11:03:57 AM PDT
by carriage_hill
(The most insidious power the news media has, is the power to ignore.)

Amazing how plentiful and tame they’ve become, in some areas. My Family Farm in SW PA is gone (auction next month) and I’m now living in a condo in East York, so the days of seeing the small herds moving thru, are over. I’ll miss the wildlife.

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posted on 03/27/2013 12:38:05 PM PDT
by carriage_hill
(The most insidious power the news media has, is the power to ignore.)

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